Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-10-20
a Modest Maiden.

Said Seth Green, the fish cuiturist:
II was trout fishing on Pine creek,
Pennsylvania, below Smith dam. The
creek below the dam was about five
rods across, and the bottom covered
with hard heads from the size of a
goose egg to a barrel. The water was
three feet deep and ran like Il mill tail.
About ten rods below Is a into a hole
tent feet deep, and whirisd around like
the whirlpool of Niagara. There was
no escape there for anybody if he was
unlueky enough to get in, unless he
was a very expert swimmer. There
were saw-horses placed across the creek
and planks fastened to them for Il foot
bridge. | had a underground basket
nearly filled when | saw an eighteen
year-old girl come on the bridge. When
she got to me | stepped on one of the
sawhorses to let her pass. | watched
her as she continued and don't think
she had got more than thirty feet from
me before L noticed that her head be-
gan to swim. She gave one of those
peculiar screams such as is natural to
all girls when in danger, tottered for
an instant and fell head foremost down
stream, and being buoyed up some.
what by her clothing the swift curren,
carried her rapidly along toward the
deep hole. To drop my rod and jump
into the water was but the work of a
second, and | made my way over the
hard heads in three feet of water as
fast as / could. I went down twice,
but kept going and overlook her about
fifty or sixty feet from where she went
in, and then began the struggle. /
grabbed her and turned her around,
and the first thing she did was to clutch
me with hand and push her cloth
ing down with the other. and when she
had got them below the surface we
were both taken off our feet and went
slipping and floating down. We went
three rods before L gained a footing
The girl must have been very fond OF
me, for | never got such 4 hugging in
my life as she gave me-. | had my
trout basket with the strap hung over
my shoulder. / kept swinging it
around, and it looked at one time very
much as thoughwe three would go into
TIE uetp iOle. well. L Ulaily m0f a
firm foot-hold, and then l had q pain
full duty to perform, and that was to
stop that girl hugging me and get her
iuieted down so that she knew what
she was about. / told her that she must
take hold Of her garments, aud with
both hands raise them above the top Gi
the water, or we never could get back
to the bridge against the current. /
placed her in front of me, and put rsr
arms around her, and we went lock.
step back to the Bridge. l tell you il
was q severe wrestle with the bowl
ders, current and basket of fish, but we
reached there at last, and then contin.
ued the same step to the edge of the
bridge at which she came on. She
wouldn't consent to go ashore unless !
turned my back I'm old enough to
be your grandfather / said i don't
care says she. and began to cry.
Dammit, says |, swearing for the sec.
ond time in my life. And l turned
round and stayed in the water while
she climbed out, arranged her skirts
and ran of. There | stood, with my
long rubber boots filled with water, and
wet from head to foot, my fish hall
gone out of my basket, and three miles
between INC and the otel."-T art.
Field and Farm.